BOZA JUAN La Guana

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BOZA, JUAN. La Guana. Pen and ink drawing with ink wash, signed and dated 1982; notes by the artist on the reverse, identifying the piece "dibujo blanco y negro mixed media tinta" [black and white drawing mixed media ink.] 15x11 inches, [together with] "Expressions '82. Africa in the Americas, An Art Exhibition," using this work as the cover. [New York], 1982

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Boza (1941-1991), was an Afro-Cuban artist trained in Cuba's School of National Art at Cubanacan, near Havana. As one of a large group of artists who were banned by the government in 1971, he emigrated to the United States during the Mariel boat exodus of 1980. After settling in Brooklyn, New York, he produced orisha-inspired art. Boza took exception to those, who like Wilfredo Lam, had extracted orisha symbols out of their religious and social milieu. In an interview published by Ricardo Viera and Randall Morris in 1996, Boza critiqued what he saw as Lam's distant gaze and detached engagement towards the orisha and Afro-Cuban social life.